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Equal numbers of boron and silicon atoms are present in a new type of cage compound whose structure (see picture) is based on an incomplete B4Si4 cube in which the boron sites are three-coordinate. This compound, which was synthesized from tert-butyltrichlorosilane, 4-vinylphenylboronic acid, and aqueous aniline, is the first cube-based structure with pairs of the same atoms in adjacent positions.
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Neville et al. (2000) studied this question.
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